








Dear Family and friends,
Greetings to you all. We are excited to report what “Papa God” is doing here in the island region of Papua New Guinea. Since we have been back from the U.S. the people here are really opening up to us like never before. From October 26 to November 4, we had the privilege to host a team from Northwest Church which included Mary Schell, Joan Allen, Chuck Paul, and Katie Duris. They stayed with us and it was so nice to be with our “wantoks” again. The team also bought us suitcases of medications and supplies and we are so grateful for this.
As we prepared for the team’s arrival , we prayerfully sought the Lord on many things including the medical and evangelism outreach venue. We have found that as we join the pastors and leaders to prayerfully seek the Holy Spirit together for direction, He is always faithful to guide us. For example, we were directed to do a land-outreach this time to encourage a struggling church whose pastor has been quite ill for some time. And as it turns out, there were high seas for most of the time that the team was here and it proved to be safer to travel by vehicle rather than boat this time. The anointing of the Holy Spirit was everywhere with signs and wonders, power encounters, healings, and decisions for Christ – just to name a few - during the outreaches. We thank you all for your prayers.
On Monday, the Kokopo Foursquare Town church welcomed the team with nice fellowship and wonderful worship led by the children. As we arrived at the church, we drove under a delicate flowered arch and then walked into the open air church that was decorated with freshly cut banana trees and fresh tropical flowers. The sweet smell of the frangipani leis was carried on the wind when the team walked around to greet people. Pastor John Puia, the Provincial supervisor of the area spoke lovingly of Northwest Church and warmly acknowledged Mary Schell and the team. The Tolai culture has predictable traditions of how to welcome others and is generally quite reserved, but on this welcome we saw how open, transparent, and authentic the Tolai people really are. The team wasn’t feeling completely well so after a brief “lunch” of cao cao,(sweet potatoes), mixed rice, taro, pit-pit (an edible flower that looks like a giant cattail), plantain, cucumbers and pineapple we left.
The next day Tuesday was the year-end Provincial United Foursquare Women’s (UFW) meeting, or “bung”. Women from all over East New Britain came and all three ladies on our team spoke. That went really well as did the ministry time praying over the women afterwards (see picture). Sitting down and spending time talking and getting to know them blessed all of us. The women stayed and although generally quite shy and quiet, they were very open and seemed to enjoy themselves. More relaxed than I have seen them with a team before. For example, one leader from one of our more remote churches was there and I went to her and asked her if she would go and sit by Mary Schell and talk to her. Her face turned a little rigid and then she looked at me and said “okay.” I watched her tentatively sit down and start talking. Later I asked her how it went. Her face lit up in a smile and she said in Tok Pisin, “It was good. I really liked talking to her.”
From Wednesday to Friday, we drove approximately 1 1/2 hours to and from a remote area called Mandres here in the central Gazelle peninsula of East New Britain. This is where we held the combined medical and evangelism outreach. This underserved area technically has an “aid post” but they lack medications to give out and most of the people that come for help leave without any help. The aid post community health worker who usually sees people was herself sick at home, and so we left a gift of a stethoscope for her when we left. Just about every community health worker we have met does not own their own stethoscope.
We brought 3 nurses from our local hospital with us and a couple of students home from break that wanted to help with any Kingdom work the church was doing (one young lady had only been a Christian for 3 weeks). In addition to seeing many patients, the three nurses also did HIV/AIDS, malaria, and cholera awareness training. The worship and pastoral team, who opened the medical outreach each day and held the nightly evangelistic services, also accompanied us. Over the three days, six hundred and ninety people were examined and given medication and most were individually prayed for by Chuck and Joan before they left (see pictures). Most of the people who had seen the medical providers and the pharmacy stood in line – sometimes ten people deep - afterwards to get healing soaking prayer. I have never seen that before, and the pastors and leaders hadn’t seen that before either. Now, the pastors want to staff all future medical outreaches with intercessors. Mary Schell and I staffed the pharmacy. One of the helpers we had in the pharmacy area is a young lady, Doreen, who is preparing to be one of the first missionaries sent out from the islands. She was very loving to the people and waited for the Holy Spirit to show her how to best distribute the Tok Pisin Gospel tracts we have. A station for cleaning and dressing sores was staffed by Katie and other young people and musicians. It was nice to hear laughter ripple through the groups of people waiting. Katie played the guitar for the kids and then Alex and Katie entertained them and played soccer with them (see picture).
One young deaf man named Chris at the medical outreach named received his hearing after Victor, Chuck, and Joan prayed for him and the miracle continues to be confirmed by his family and friends. He is currently learning to speak now and has given his heart to Christ (see picture). Also, just before our last evangelism service, a woman fell to the ground in a fit and no physical abnormalities were apparent upon evaluation and examination. The fit was also unlike a typical medical seizure, so Victor and one of our pastors prayed over her and she was delivered immediately. One hundred and twenty people gave their lives to Jesus at the end of the last evangelism service including the local level government official for the area. At the close of the outreach, the official came forward to publicly proclaim Christ. She testified that her daughter kept telling her that they should go to the meeting that night because God was going to do something special. She didn’t believe her daughter but something inside her drew her to the outreach. This powerful move of the Holy Spirit only continues to be demonstrated. We are now hearing, too, that many people who attended the medical outreach received their healing the same day and that the Lord continues to add the number of His church daily.
On Sunday, we had the joy of being part of a dedication service for a Foursquare Church plant in Rieit that came out of a medical and evangelism outreach we did last year. Victor preached and Joan and Chuck did the prayer of dedication (see picture). Rieit is located in a more remote area of the Gazelle peninsula here in East New Britain. The government local level government official, or “councilor,” named Justin got saved at the original outreach a year ago and is donating some land for the church building. Justin was all smiles as his son Gabriel spoke publically of how much God has changed their lives. Before giving his heart to Christ, Justin was a alcoholic and when he came home the family would scatter into the jungle to avoid contact with him. The first thing Justin did after becoming a Christian was to go to Kokopo Town and buy a guitar because all he wanted to do was worship God. Now the family that was fractured has been healed and there is peace. Sounds just like God doesn’t it? Pastor Emmanuel, the Foursquare pastor of the Rieit church, excitedly related that during the dedication service a man who was walking by on the road came into the church and gave his heart to Jesus. This man has a chainsaw and is going to help build a pastor’s house. Rieit is a unique area with a mix of tribes and the people are hungry for God’s truth.
After the church dedication, we went to a settlement village called Raniolo not too far from Kokopo Town. The outreach was the result of prayerful preparation with Pastors William and Lydia, our two children’s ministers (see picture). Victor and I met with them beforehand three times to help them as they decided on a program which included games, refreshments, music and songs, and Bible stories. The children responded to the Gospel messages and according to the latest reports, many of the children are still singing the songs they learned at the outreach. Pastor William and Lydia did a great job and they are looking forward to ministering at a Provincial youth and children’s outreach in December. They are also already talking about doing a children’s market evangelism program after that.
Prayer Requests:
- · The pastors are well into their Leadership Transformation Accountability Groups. Please pray for them.
- · The Foursquare Pastor in Madres – Felix – and the church there. Pastor Felix has TB and liver disease.
- · The East New Britain Province Youth and Children’s Outreach December 17-20.
- · The New Guinea Island Bible School here in our Province. In addition to needing dormitories, we need the full support of the Foursquare National Executive Committee and all Regional, Provincial, and District Supervisors before we can open it.
- · For our son Nathaniel in the U.S.
- · For the Northwest Church team still re-entering the U.S. from their visit with us.
Expect Great things from God
Attempt Great Things for God
William Carey





